The latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is here, and among other things it rolls out stronger privacy protection as well as protection from annoyances like videos that autoplay when you load a website. While Firefox already has a Block Autoplay feature, it only applied to videos with autoplaying audio. Now users can opt […]
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Mozilla teases “Firefox Ad-free internet” for $5 per month
Online advertising is often described as the “original sin of the Internet.” We’ve become used to getting content for free, but ad tech has emerged in ways that many feel violate their privacy and sometimes even safety (advertising has been used to deliver malware). Anyone that’s ever used an ad blocker also knows that most […]
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Firefox Preview for Android gives a sneak peek at a faster future for Firefox
Mozilla’s been offering Firefox web browsers for Android for years, but the organization is working on a complete re-write of its browser that uses the new GeckoView library. While the new browser is still a work in progress, Mozilla is now making it available for anyone to try out thanks to a new Firefox Preview […]
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Mozilla releases Firefox 67 with speed, privacy enhancements
Microsoft may have taken the if-you-can’t-beat-them-join-them approach to web browsing by basing its new Edge web browser on Google’s Chromium. But Mozilla continues to be lead the charge of browser independence. Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is compliant with modern web standards, but it uses a different rendering engine and overall design than Chrome, Edge, or […]
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Mozilla released Firefox beta for Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft recently announced that it was working with Google to port Chromium to run natively on ARM64 architecture, which means that in addition to the Microsoft Edge web browser, we could see Google Chrome and other related browsers running on Windows 10 Chromebooks with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. But it looks like Mozilla got there first […]
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Firefox Lockbox lets you login to mobile apps using your Firefox Account
Most modern web browsers let you save usernames and passwords for the websites you visit. And most cross-platform browsers offer a way to sync your data so you can login to the same sites whether you’re using a desktop computer or a mobile device. But what if you want to login to a mobile app rather […]
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Firefox 66 blocks auto-playing audio, improves multi-tab search, and more
Firefox 66 is out today, and the latest version of the web browser includes a bunch of new features including support for Windows Hello authentication (so you can login to websites using a fingerprint, facial recognition, or a PIN, basic support for the macOS Touch Bar, and the number of processes used to render web […]
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Mozilla’s Project Fission brings site isolation to Firefox (Spectre and Meltdown protection)
Comments Off on Mozilla’s Project Fission brings site isolation to Firefox (Spectre and Meltdown protection)Companies have been scrambling to offer software updates to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities since before they were disclosed to the public last year. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to use a speculative execution side-channel attack to obtain data from your computer that shouldn’t be accessible. One thing Google did to help protect […]
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Firefox 65 adds WebP image, AV1 video support
Mozilla is set to release Firefox 65 on January 29th, but it’s been in beta since last early December, and it looks like the stable version of Firefox 65 for Android is already starting to roll out a few days early. The latest version of the web browser should be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux […]
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Firefox 64 gets new features for tabs, context menus, and more
Now that Microsoft has announced that future versions of Edge web browser will be based on Google’s Chromium, Firefox is pretty much the only major browser to use a dramatically different web rendering engine. Opera used to use its own Presto engine before switching to Chromium and Blink. Edge currently uses EdgeHTML, but Microsoft is […]